On 4 Jul 2012, at 09:37, Rob <robert at irrelevant.com> wrote:
There is a
chance, I reckon, that the RasPi may end up like the IBM
PC. Quite respectably successful in its own right, but more important
for the whole market sector it spawned of enhanced-but-compatible
I think that's actually the point!
Exactly. They aren't doing this for the profit, they are doing it for
the drive into the community and to get people programming as a hobby.
While yes I appreciate people have battered on about the documentation
being part under NDA and that sucks for driver development, really
that's not the part they are most interested in leveraging, they want
a small device that people, kids especially, can doodle about with
languages like C, Python etc on to get them enthused about creating
software in a modern context in order to inspire a new generation to
grow up with computer programming on the brain.
The project is at an early stage, really largely still late
development, but it's got the important thing - large amounts of
traction with the community and a friendly introductory price tag.
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